In the filing, Floyd alleges an “unlawful horizontal agreement between Apple and Amazon to eliminate or at least severely reduce the competitive threat posed by third party merchants.”The complaint claims this agreement was enacted from the start of 2019, “the existence of which neither defendant denies” the says the law firm.This allowed Apple to restrict the number of resellers on Amazon’s platform, and in turn Apple gave discounted wholesale prices, or so the filing claims.- Apple, Amazon fined to the tune of €200m for colluding over Beats headphones sales- Amazon abuses dominance to keep wholesaler prices high, says DC AG in updated antitrust complaint- eBay won't pass UK Digital Service Tax costs on to third-party sellers – unlike Amazon, which simply can't afford it- French court slashes Apple's €1.1b fine to pocket changeThe lawsuit claims the illicit agreement between the duo had a desired effect of dramatically reducing the numbers of third party sellers on Amazon Marketplace by 98 percent, from 600 to just seven.This arbitrary and purely quantitative threshold excluded even Authorized Resellers of Apple products.”The lawsuit claims that data indicates there were at least 100 independent reseller entities peddling iPhones and at least 500 selling iPads on the Marketplace before the agreement was established.Steve Berman, managing partner at Hagens Berman, said: “When our antitrust trial team reviewed the numbers behind this lawsuit, we very quickly noticed several red flags."